A Republican senator said Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Wray is unobjectionable, though Donald Trump’s pick to head the FBI will get the “benefit of the doubt” if he’s formally nominated.

Patel, a onetime national security prosecutor who is aligned with the president-elect's rhetoric about a “deep state,” "must prove to Congress he will reform & restore public trust in FBI,” said Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, in line to be the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman when Republicans take control in January, in a post on X.